Overview
SCAD Electronic Prototyping class was given the theme to design motion for emotion using Arduino Programming.
Project Description
Being in college gives opportunities to work in a team that can be exciting, but not when your teammates come unprepared. This can easily lead to an unproductive meeting with distraction to team members. From going on your phone to side conversation with your other teammate. Distraction can easily prevent tasks from being completed and frustrate all team members.
Meet the team
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Henry Tran : Team Lead / Interaction Designer
Sarah Beth Doncals : Research / Industrial Design
Eric Flatt : Lead Arduino Engineer
Austin Lavalley : Visual Design / Content
Kajal Boghara : Content / Arduino Engineer
Team distraction can cause conflict and actually stop work from being completed on time
Our Intended Goal
To enhance the team dynamic experience by leveraging motion in a less distracting way that allows for the team to be more productive.
Competitive Research
Research
Research Conclusion
460+
Datapoints
100+
Insights
15+
HMW's
Overall Insights
How might we...
Help users stay on track during meetings?
Enhance technology to reduce distraction?
Create an environment that feels productive?
Incentivize users to stay on track?
Make users comfortable to voice their opinion?
Help users to make plans prior to the meeting?
Give users a sense of control?
We designed for...
College students aged 19-25 who work in team settings
Personas & User Journey's (click to see image)
Concept Development
User testing
Coding & physical development
Final Product
Sway is a product that helps teammates become aware of distractions in a discrete way. It allows team members to be responsible and productive throughout meetings. The web app is for team members to create their own priority list before coming into a meeting. This helps all team members to be more responsible and have clear goals of what they want to get out of the meeting. The web app consists of a data visualization based on the productivity of the meeting and suggests methods to have a more productive meeting in the future. The physical product is created to help teammates bring awareness to the distraction happening during the meeting. The physical product is a button that each team member would get to keep with them during the meeting. To initiate the meeting, users will grab the button from the center of the table. One of the buttons will turn yellow to indicate that they are the moderator of that meeting. Being the moderator means that they have to assign tasks to everybody based on the prioritized list created. As the team starts to work it starts a 20-minute timer for working. Throughout the meeting it allows the team members to simply notify the team when they are distracted by simply tapping the center of the button to change of light color slowly from green to red.
Product Features
App Features
Timer & Initiate meeting
Green light on the meeting indicates meeting is in session and there is no distraction happening in the group.
The light ring is also a 20 minutes timer that users can check on the time without going on their phone or laptop
Home Screen
Users can easily access to Sway web app and look at an upcoming meeting, ongoing projects, data visualization, to-do list, and calendar
Create an agenda
Users can create agenda and set realistic goal for upcoming meetings
Touch & Haptic Feedback
Sway has a built-in force-sensitive resistor that allows users to simply tap the top in a more discrete way and receive a vibration to signal that their input has been recorded across all buttons.
Create a new meeting
User can create new meeting with individual team and invite team members
Pick Moderator
Yellow light will indicate picked moderator which allows the team member to be more responsible and prepared as well as a sense of ownership toward the projects
Notify Distraction
If there is any distraction during the meeting, the light will gradually change into red to let team members know that they are being distracted